The British nation a history / by George MWrong . CiiAKLEs,.Earl Gkev (1764-1845). slavery itself had long disap-peared from the British Isles,but it still flourished in the British colonies. The mantleof Wilberforce, the friend of the slave, fell, on his retire-ment in 1825, to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, and the Par-liament of 1833 ended a longstruggle by abolishing slaveryin all British dominious. ThenaTfioiT^inted £20,000,000 incompensation to still existed a real, thoughnot a nominal, slavery in theBritish Isles themselves. Chil-dren were forced by their parentsor employe
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . CiiAKLEs,.Earl Gkev (1764-1845). slavery itself had long disap-peared from the British Isles,but it still flourished in the British colonies. The mantleof Wilberforce, the friend of the slave, fell, on his retire-ment in 1825, to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, and the Par-liament of 1833 ended a longstruggle by abolishing slaveryin all British dominious. ThenaTfioiT^inted £20,000,000 incompensation to still existed a real, thoughnot a nominal, slavery in theBritish Isles themselves. Chil-dren were forced by their parentsor employers to work in facto-ries from a very early age and forlong hours. Visiting the hospi-tals of Lancashire, Lord Asliley,afterward the seventh Earl ofShaftesbury, found many pa-tients with crooked and distorted bodies who had beencrippled and mutilated by unwholesome work when they. William Wilberforce (1759-1833). THE MODERN ERA- , 521 were children. As a. result of Lord Ashleys appeal, theFactory Act was passed in 1833. Though it fell far shortof what he desired, henceforth no child under/TheFactoY^ nine years of age might be employed in fac-^ tories ; children under thirteen might not be employed for more than eight hours a day, nor those be-tween thirteen and eighteen for more than twelve. Theseconditions, still hard, were the best that Lord Ashley couldsecure in 1833, but in 1847 a new factory bill prohibitedthe employment of women, and of children under eighteen,in factories for more than ten hours a day. Another great reform was that of the Poor Law in1834, At the end of the previous century, in a time of•p >. acute distress caused by the great French 1 Amendment, J war, an act for relieving the poor had been\834. ^ passed by which even able-bodied men inwork were entitled to charity on a fixed scale, in propor- tion to the number of persons in the ho
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